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Growing in Unity - Day 4 - Never Give Up

Welcome to Day 4 of my GIU Week, I can't believe how fast this week has gone, I know it will be over before I realise it, but I've had such a wonderful time sharing my Unity Stamp Co project with you, and I've another creation to share with you today.

To create my background I painted the Canvas with White Gesso, then added some polka dot paper tape to the bottom area, before I started to stamp on my canvas.

I stamped elements with Green and Black Archival Ink, before adding more layers of Gesso and Neon Pink Acrylic Paint.

I added some doodles to my canvas with Faber Castell PITT Pens, and White Posca Paint Pen. I also added Black Faber Castell PITT Pen to the edge of my Canvas. I added another layer of Neon Pink Acrylic to areas of the Canvas at this point, as I wanted to tone down the doodling, which looked a little overpowering.

To finish my Canvas I stamped the 'Never never never give up' and 'Love' sentiments, along with the Heartbeat Line stamp, all in Black Archival Ink.

Do I like the finished Canvas? To be honest I'm not sure, I like areas of it, but i'm not sure about the thing as a whole. But I had lots of fun creating it, and playing with the different layers of colour.

I hope you like today's project, or at least find my post interesting. Don't forget to leave a comment to be in with a chance of winning some awesome Unity stamps, and come back tomorrow for my last post of the week.

To embellish my canvas I used some brand new MDF Stars from Samantha K Gifts, which are available from Hochanda.com from today, but you'll have to be quick, as the last collection sold out really quick. You can see Sam on Hochanda TV today at 8am and 3pm featuring these Stars and lots more gorgeous new shapes.

I painted the Stars with pale blue acrylic paint, iridescent medium and then added a little alchemy wax in turquoise and silver. Look at that shine. So beautiful.#

The background is a piece of canvas I did some Gelli Printing on the other day. I cut out a large circle from one of my plain gel prints and added half to the left side of the canvas and another piece to the bottom right corner. I applied it with matte medium, and got impatient so dried it with my heat gun, which made it bubble. Not a happy mess! So I ripped off the bubble sections and used a sanding block to even out the surface a little. Luckily that looked better, so I added my …